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• The Salvation Army operates in 86 countries. It
preaches the Gospel in 103 languages and maintains
20,464 religious and charitable centers.
Salvation Army Services include
• Dispensaries and clinics
• General hospitals and maternity homes and hospitals
for unmarried mothers
• Children's homes and foster care service
• Settlements and day nurseries
• Emergency lodges for women and children and hospi­tality
houses for transient men
• Homes for senior citizens
• Men's Social Service Centers, reclamation program for
men who are provided housing, counsel, medical and
psychiatric care as they salvage and recondition for sale
materials donated by the public
• Correctional Departments, whose officers visit prisoners
in state and federal institutions, assist their families,
help ex-prisoners find work, and conduct a Bible cor­respondence
course in which nearly 4,000 prisoners are
enrolled
• Missing persons bureaus, which find over a thousand
persons each year
• Employment services
• Boys' clubs
• Summer camps
• Red Shield Servicemen's Clubs and drop-in centers,
and Salvation Army-operated USO Clubs
• Immigrants' services
• Evangeline residences providing moderate cost-of-living
for business women.
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